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Bangor, Maine, 1880-1920 Sara K The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Electronic Theses and Dissertations Fogler Library 2001 "The Littleit C y in Itself ": Middle-Class Aspirations in Bangor, Maine, 1880-1920 Sara K. Martin Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd Part of the Human Geography Commons, Social History Commons, and the Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons Recommended Citation Martin, Sara K., ""The Little itC y in Itself": Middle-Class Aspirations in Bangor, Maine, 1880-1920" (2001). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 197. http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/197 This Open-Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. "THE LITTLE CITY IN ITSELF": MIDDLE-CLASS ASPIRATIONS IN BANGOR, MAINE, 1880-1920 By Sara K. Martin Thesis Advisor: Dr. Martha McNamara An Abstract of the Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (in History) December, 2001 This thesis examines the inception and growth of "the Little City in Itself," a residential neighborhood in Bangor, Maine, as a case study of middle-class suburbanization and domestic life in small cities around the turn of the twentieth century. The development of Little City is the story of builders' and residents' efforts to shape a middle-class neighborhood in a small American city, a place distinct from the crowded downtown neighborhoods of immigrants and the elegant mansions of the wealthy. The purpose of this study is to explore builders' response to the aspirations of the neighborhood's residents for home and neighborhood from 1880 to 1920, and thus to provide insight into urban growth and ideals of family life in small American cities. This examination advances two interrelated arguments. First, it complicates the narrative of suburbanization that has been presented by urban historians, which has relied on the study of metropolitan areas. Bangor inhabitants moved to the periphery of the city in a later period than the denizens of larger cities and the districts they created were not as strictly homogenous by class. Second, it suggests a more complex interpretation of domestic architecture as a reflection of changes in ideal family relationships around the turn of the twentieth century than offered by architectural historians. This study reveals that the builders of Little City constructed houses that contained both traditional and progressive elements, rather than merely replicating older forms or indiscriminately adopting house plans that were submitted in advice literature. The creation of this community occurred as the result of a complex relationship between developers, builders and residents. The dialog between the builders and residents produced the urban form and domestic architecture of Little City. Lot plans and deeds, local newspaper and business journal articles and advertisements, and historical maps provided insight into the developers' real estate activities and plans for the neighborhood. Census and city tax data, along with city directories, furnished information about the residents of Little City and revealed their social and economic standing in the community, allowing for a class analysis of the district. A field study of the floor plans of houses in the neighborhood, as well as house plan books and household manuals from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, demonstrated that the builders of these houses incorporated both contemporary and conservative ideas into their designs in their attempt to recruit the middle class to the area. The evolution of a rural landscape at the periphery of the city of Bangor in the late nineteenth century to a fashionable middle-class neighborhood in the beginning of the twentieth century reveals how builders and residents responded to societal changes, and how suburbanization and the transformation of domestic architecture differed in small cities from larger metropolises. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the Association of Graduate Students and the History Department at the University of Maine for travel funding to present an earlier draft of portions of this paper at the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the American Studies Association, where I received valuable comments and suggestions about my arguments. I also wish to thank Betsy Paradis and Kathy Corridan at Special Collections at Fogler Library at the University of Maine for their many trips to the recesses of the library to retrieve heavy tax ledgers, and for their guidance in finding other useful archives. I am indebted to the Interlibrary Loan librarians at Fogler, as well, for resolutely tracking down countless articles for me. Thanks, too, go to the reference librarians at the Bangor Public Library, particularly Molly Larsen, Cindy Todd, and Bill Cook, for cheerfully finding many pieces of information on Bangor History. For helping find photographs, for gathering odd bits of information, and especially for their friendship, I am grateful to Dana Lippitt and Susan Smith of the Bangor Historical Society. Members of my writing group, comprised of other graduate students in the History Department, helped me to refine my arguments, and more importantly, to clarify my thinking about houses, people, culture and history. I want to thank Lisa Scofield, Peter Morrison, Kathy Hoving, David Klinge, Josh Smith, and especially Micah Pawling, who saw this project through from its inception to its completion. I would also like to thank fellow graduate students Kim Seebold, Mary Ellen Barnes, Lynn Manion, Nancy Alexander, Anu Dudley, and Cynthia Richardson for their support. I am also grateful to Shanon Loftus for her assistance with Microsoft Access. It is very possible this thesis would have been significantly delayed if she had not been available to answer my questions. Marli Weiner and Richard Judd, members of my thesis committee, provided many helpful suggestions for resources and challenged my analyses, leading to a much better thesis than I would have produced without their help. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Martha McNamara, for providing insightful criticism of many earlier drafts of this thesis, for sharpening my intellectual skills, and for giving me the idea for the thesis in the first place. She has been an enthusiastic supporter of the project as well as a penetrating critic, and has become a friend along the way. Finally, I want to thank my husband and my daughter, Rick and Jordan Borgman. Rick has helped in hundreds of ways, from editing suggestions and assistance with computer glitches to countless loads of laundry and grocery shopping trips. Mainly, he has given me the time and space to research and write, and has maintained steadfast interest in the topic. He has also given me the occasional nudge I needed to move it closer to completion. Jordan has allowed her mom to spend many hours at work on this project without complaint, even though it cost her visits to the park and time to play on the computer. She also did a great job helping prepare the maps. Both of them have been unwavering in their love and support. TABLE OF CONTENTS ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ....................................................................III LIST OF TABLES.. .......................................................................... ..vi LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................vii INTRODUCTION................................................................................. 1 CHAPTER 1: "This Popular Neighborhoodn:The Building of "The Little City in Itself"... ................................................................................I 1 CHAPTER 2: "The Right Kind of Peoplen:The Spatial Segregation of the Middle Class in Bangor ............................................................ .56 CHAPTER 3: "The Right Kind of Housesn: Domestic Arrangements in Little City ............................................................................... -88 EPILOGUE.................................................................................... -127 BIBLIOGRAPHY.............................................................................. 129 APPENDICES.. .............................................................................. -142 Appendix A. Occupational Distribution of Little City Residents, 1900- 1920.. .........................................................................-143 Appendix B. Place of Work and Homeownership of Little City Residents, 1900-1920.. ................................................................. -147 BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR. ........................................................ 150 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Class Composition of Little City Heads of Households, 1880-1920.. ..................................................................-69 Table 2. Class Composition of Residential Districts in Bangor, 1901-1920 ..................................................................... 71 Table 3. Average House Valuation by Class, 1900-1920. ....................81 Table B.l Percentage of Little City Household Heads Who Worked Downtown, 1900-1920.. ................................................. .I48 Table B.2 Rate of Homeownership of Little City Residents, 1900-1920................................................................... -149 vii LIST OF FIGURES Figure1. Littlecity...........................................................................
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